Did You Have an Interesting Delivery?

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Permalink Reply by Barbara Siragusa on October 13, 2008 at 8:25am

Not mine, but my mother tells me when she was pregnant with my older brother, my Mum woke up in the middle of the night and told my Dad it was time, and he said just go back to sleep you will be fine! So she did, got up early morning, off to the hospital and delivered my brother!

As for an interesting story of my son Chris's delivery, I had a good friend come in while I was having the C section. She had a video camera, which I told her, no video of me, just my little baby as he is put in the basinnet. So she did. Next day, she got out the camera to show me my sweet little boy, seconds old, and what I didn't know was that at one point the nurses were all around the basinnet taking care of him, and my friend instead of putting off the camera, panned around for a minute, and of course got me getting worked on. Needless to say, my pain was a lot worse seeing half of myself that I had never seen before! I can laugh about it now!

Permalink Reply by Jens4him on October 14, 2008 at 7:47am

I had premature labor with all 3 of my babies that got progressively worse. With my daughter we discovered that she was breech, and actually had to tell the doctor that. He did an ultrasound and there she was, just sitting up like she was supposed to be with her head in my ribs. There were 3 doctors in the practice and they all had varied opinions about a vaginal delivery of a Frank breech baby. One said absolutely not- we'd do a C-section, one said the butt is no bigger than the head, and the third was unsure. Of course, when I went into labor, the doctor that said absolutely not was on call. He really tried to talk me out of it, and took my husband and parents out in the hall to tell them I could possibly be killing my baby by attempting this delivery. I had also wanted an unmedicated delivery, but he said I should get the epidural just in case they needed to rush me to OR, or they would have to put me under general anesthesia. I got the epidural and hated it because I couldn't feel anything, even pushing. Once I started pushing I couldn't stop because he didn't want her getting caught in the birth canal, so I pushed and pushed and she came out butt first, with her tiny feet touching her ears! She's still flexible 12 years later.
With my first son, the doctor had only enough time to walk into the room and sit down on the end of the bed and catch, and with my last son, the doctor arrived about 15 minutes late. The wonderful team of nurses delivered him and resusitated him.

Permalink Reply by Carolyn on October 15, 2008 at 4:09am

Both my babies were early. I had both natural, no meds. But my son I had gotten food poison around the same time as his birth, which induced me. Not really interesting but it was a beautiful mess:)

Permalink Reply by Duong on October 15, 2008 at 6:51am

Wow, that is interesting...water birth! I have heard one other person do it, and I guess it relieves some labor pains??

Mel said:

I have one child, my 9 year old daughter. She was born at home via water birth. It was wonderful but not sure how "interesting" it is. LOL I never wanted more kids but if I had I would do it again the same exact way.

Permalink Reply by Duong on October 15, 2008 at 6:51am

awwe...thanks for your response!

Jens4him said:

I had premature labor with all 3 of my babies that got progressively worse. With my daughter we discovered that she was breech, and actually had to tell the doctor that. He did an ultrasound and there she was, just sitting up like she was supposed to be with her head in my ribs. There were 3 doctors in the practice and they all had varied opinions about a vaginal delivery of a Frank breech baby. One said absolutely not- we'd do a C-section, one said the butt is no bigger than the head, and the third was unsure. Of course, when I went into labor, the doctor that said absolutely not was on call. He really tried to talk me out of it, and took my husband and parents out in the hall to tell them I could possibly be killing my baby by attempting this delivery. I had also wanted an unmedicated delivery, but he said I should get the epidural just in case they needed to rush me to OR, or they would have to put me under general anesthesia. I got the epidural and hated it because I couldn't feel anything, even pushing. Once I started pushing I couldn't stop because he didn't want her getting caught in the birth canal, so I pushed and pushed and she came out butt first, with her tiny feet touching her ears! She's still flexible 12 years later.
With my first son, the doctor had only enough time to walk into the room and sit down on the end of the bed and catch, and with my last son, the doctor arrived about 15 minutes late. The wonderful team of nurses delivered him and resusitated him.

Permalink Reply by Duong on October 15, 2008 at 6:52am

Wow, thank Goodness you made it!

Sew About My World said:

My 3rd delivery was the most unusual out of my seven pregnancies.

My first two pregnancies and deliveries were the norm. My 3rd delivery was the only one I experienced like this.....I was 12 days over due. I had pretty much confined myself to the house after my due date came and went, just because I was big and uncomfortable. My mother had called in the morning to see how I was doing and suggested I dropped my two oldest off at her house, so Hubby and I could get out for a little bit. When we dropped the girls off, my mother asked if the baby was coming today. I said no baby, but joking said maybe a period because I had period like cramps...a steady crampy ache. Hubby and I went to breakfast and walked the mall. I felt fine except for the crampy ache....I really thought it my stomach muscles hurting from carrying such a load. LOL I noticed on the ride to my mother's house my belly was starting to get hard, but couldn't feel any contractions. There was no ebb and flow like "normal" contractions. We got to my mother's house and she said to get my behind to the hospital. We made it with 1 cm to spare. I was 8 almost 9 centimeters. I didn't feel "normal" contractions until it was time to push and then WHAM! They hit me hard.

I was never lucky enough to have another delivery like that.

Permalink Reply by Cara on October 15, 2008 at 7:11am

I as well had a water birth in a birth center with a midwife. I wanted nothing to do with hospitals or tradtional medical interventions. It was the absolutely most amazing experience of my life and I plan on doing it over and over again for however many more kids we plan on having. (And at this point I will say yes... I'm one of the crazy ones who would have babies until my body told me no more if I could!)

As far as the birth went, I don't really know how "interesting" it was, but it was great, fast and EASY! We chose not to have him at home since we were in an apartment, but we had him at the midwife's birth center, which was pretty much just like being at home. Total active labor was a max of 4 hours, pushing for only about 20 minutes. And the delivery itself really was not painful for me.

Permalink Reply by Nikki Katz on October 15, 2008 at 8:59am

My middle one was born in the elevator at the hospital :)

Permalink Reply by Genell Hodges on October 15, 2008 at 1:21pm

I woul "LOVE" to share this story! My middle boy was a 10 pounder and delivered in 4 hours. I wasn't sure I was in labor, because with my first one I was induced. I had worse mentrual cramps before then when I was in labor with my middle boy! On the video we shot of his birth and the nurse was weighing him it show's 10 lbs and you hear everyone in the room go "Wow" and "OMG", it is quite funny. During that delivery he also broke his collar bone, and wouldn't use his arm for a month or so. Was very fragile, but healed quite nice! Now you would never know he was a 10 pounder, he grazes all day eating fruits and vegies and hardly ever eats an entire meal. Should learn from him????
Despite the easy delivery, he made up for it later on. He's my most challenging one of the 3! He marches to his own tune and sometimes I feel like losing my marbles. He's my boy and I love him so!

Permalink Reply by Duong on October 15, 2008 at 2:58pm

OMG--who was with you??

Nikki Katz said:

My middle one was born in the elevator at the hospital :)

Permalink Reply by Duong on October 15, 2008 at 2:59pm

O MY---steroid baby holy cow...what in the world did you eat?? I can't image 10lber here! LOL!


Genell Hodges said:

I woul "LOVE" to share this story! My middle boy was a 10 pounder and delivered in 4 hours. I wasn't sure I was in labor, because with my first one I was induced. I had worse mentrual cramps before then when I was in labor with my middle boy! On the video we shot of his birth and the nurse was weighing him it show's 10 lbs and you hear everyone in the room go "Wow" and "OMG", it is quite funny. During that delivery he also broke his collar bone, and wouldn't use his arm for a month or so. Was very fragile, but healed quite nice! Now you would never know he was a 10 pounder, he grazes all day eating fruits and vegies and hardly ever eats an entire meal. Should learn from him????
Despite the easy delivery, he made up for it later on. He's my most challenging one of the 3! He marches to his own tune and sometimes I feel like losing my marbles. He's my boy and I love him so!

Permalink Reply by Tammy Dantzler on October 16, 2008 at 3:28am

An interesting delivery? Well my daughter decide to rest on my spine. It was very painful and I prayed to God just to take me then. Then my doctor totally embarrassed me when her head started to pop out he grabbed both my husband's and his mom's head guiding them to my knees and said see the baby's head and she popped out into the doctors hands.